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Iainboyd
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Model Of Vehicle: RANGER WILDTRAK PX2
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I will be taking delivery of my Ranger Wildtrak in early February 2018.
I have MRS exemption from wearing a lap and sash seat belt, long story short, I was involved in a traumatic MVA where the other driver fell asleep at the wheel and drove straight into my car and some of the physical damage I suffered included 17 breaks to my rib cage, my sternum was split in three places and I had to have the lower 5 vertebrae fused into a single bone.
Currently when I'm driving my partners little Kia or my Land Rover Discovery I insert a seat belt "catch" I obtained from my local wrecker into the "female" portion of the seat belt to stop the alarm from sounding off, its far easier than disconnecting the seat pressure switch -- will this method work in the Ranger or am I going to have to do some programming with the Forscan ?
Shadow Black Wildtrak with accessories and upgrades for touring Australia, mainly the central deserts but also over the next five years the Cape, The Kimberly's Arnhem Land and the Kakadu.
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saeb
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Model Of Vehicle: RANGER XLT PX2
Year Of Vehicle: 2015
Forscan Dongle Type: Ford VCM
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You will just disable seat belt reminder with Forscan or the manual procedure I may have posted here. If not it's in my thread in the ranger forums.
Stewart

Ford PX2 Supercab 2015 Automatic
Iainboyd
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So are you saying that my current method wont work ?
Shadow Black Wildtrak with accessories and upgrades for touring Australia, mainly the central deserts but also over the next five years the Cape, The Kimberly's Arnhem Land and the Kakadu.
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saeb
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It will but using the manual procedure to turn off takes 10 secs and requires no tools, hardware or software.

I will find the post or repost my original one.
Stewart

Ford PX2 Supercab 2015 Automatic